Greetings! I'm Xi Peng

Vision:

"I want to understand how the brain works, not just from a philosophy perspective, not just in a general way, but in a detailed nuts and bolts mathematical and engineering ways. My desire is not only to understand what intelligence is and how the brain works, but how to build machines that work in the same way. I want to build truly intelligent machines." inspired by J. Hawkins.

Awards and Honors:

• 2023: Cheung Kong Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education of China;
• 2022: China Society of Image and Graphics, the first prize;
• 2022: Natural Science of Sichuan Providence, the second prize;
• 2021: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2021), Best Paper Award;
• 2020: Fok Ying-Tong Young Teachers Prize (2nd Class);
• 2019: IJCAI-BOOM Best Paper Awards;
• 2019: 1000 Youth Talents Program, China;
• 2018: Double Hundred Distinguished Scholars of Sichuan University;
• 2018: 1000 Talents of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Province, China;
• 2017: Outstanding Young Scholars, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University;
• 2015: Highlight in A*STAR Research;
• 2010: IEEE CHENGDU Section Excellent Student Paper;

Professional Activity:

• Chair of:
  • VALSE Executive Area Chair Committee (EACC);
• Deputy Secretary-General of:
  • Youth Committee, China Society of Image and Graphics;
• Member of:
  • VALSE Leading Area Chair Committee (LACC);
  • VALSE Online Director Board (VODB);
  • VALSE Online Organization Committee (VOOC).
• Program Chair for:
  • VALSE 2020, Hangzhou, China, March 2020.
  • Young Scientist Forum of China Society of Image and Graphics, Urumchi, China, July 24-26, 2019.
• Organizer Chair for:
  • Half-day workshop on ``Application of Vision and Language’’, VALSE 2019, April 12, 2019;
  • Half-day regular tutorial on ``Deep learning meets model optimization and statistical inference’’, ECCV 2016, Oct. 8, 2016;
  • VCIP’17 Special Session on Regularization Techniques for High-Dimensional Visual Data Processing and Analysis;
• Associate Editor/Guest Editor:
  • IEEE Trans on Image Processing, 2025/01-Present;
  • Remote Sensing, 2020-Present; 
  • the Visual Computer journal, 2019-Present;
  • IEEE Trans on SMC: Systems, 2019-Present;
  • IEEE Access, 2018-2022;
  • IET Image Processing, Special Issue on Adversarial Learning in Image Processing;
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Special Issue on Discriminative Learning for Model Optimization and Statistical Inference;
  • Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Regularization Techniques for High-Dimensional Data Analysis.
  • Springer Nature Computer Science, Special Issue on Recent Developments in Unsupervised Deep Learning; 
• Senior Area Chair/Area Chair:
  • ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, IJCAI, AAAI;
• Plenary talk:
  • International Conference on Unmanned Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Nov. 15--17, 2019, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. 
• Registration Chair:
  • 9th Vision and Learning Seminar, Hefei, Anhui, Apr. 12--14, 2019 (VALSE'19);
  • 8th Vision and Learning Seminar, Dalian, China, Apr. 20--22, 2018 (VALSE'18);
• Volunteer Chair:
  • ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China (ACM TURC), Chengdu, China, May 17--19, 2019;